1 Disse o Senhor a Moisés: 2 Esta será a lei do leproso no dia da sua purificação: será levado ao sacerdote; 3 este sairá fora do arraial e o examinará. Se a praga da lepra do leproso está curada, 4 então, o sacerdote ordenará que se tomem, para aquele que se houver de purificar, duas aves vivas e limpas, e pau de cedro, e estofo carmesim, e hissopo. 5 Mandará também o sacerdote que se imole uma ave num vaso de barro, sobre águas correntes.

6 Tomará a ave viva, e o pau de cedro, e o estofo carmesim, e o hissopo e os molhará no sangue da ave que foi imolada sobre as águas correntes. 7 E, sobre aquele que há de purificar-se da lepra, aspergirá sete vezes; então, o declarará limpo e soltará a ave viva para o campo aberto. 8 Aquele que tem de se purificar lavará as vestes, rapará todo o seu pelo, banhar-se-á com água e será limpo; depois, entrará no arraial, porém ficará fora da sua tenda por sete dias. 9 Ao sétimo dia, rapará todo o seu cabelo, a cabeça, a barba e as sobrancelhas; rapará todo pelo, lavará as suas vestes, banhará o corpo com água e será limpo.

10 No oitavo dia, tomará dois cordeiros sem defeito, uma cordeira sem defeito, de um ano, e três dízimas de um efa de flor de farinha, para oferta de manjares, amassada com azeite, e separadamente um sextário de azeite; 11 e o sacerdote que faz a purificação apresentará o homem que houver de purificar-se e essas coisas diante do Senhor, à porta da tenda da congregação; 12 tomará um dos cordeiros e o oferecerá por oferta pela culpa e o sextário de azeite; e os moverá por oferta movida perante o Senhor. 13 Então, imolará o cordeiro no lugar em que se imola a oferta pelo pecado e o holocausto, no lugar santo; porque quer a oferta pela culpa como a oferta pelo pecado são para o sacerdote; são coisas santíssimas. 14 O sacerdote tomará do sangue da oferta pela culpa e o porá sobre a ponta da orelha direita daquele que tem de purificar-se, e sobre o polegar da sua mão direita, e sobre o polegar do seu pé direito. 15 Também tomará do sextário de azeite e o derramará na palma da própria mão esquerda. 16 Molhará o dedo direito no azeite que está na mão esquerda e daquele azeite aspergirá, com o dedo, sete vezes perante o Senhor; 17 do restante do azeite que está na mão, o sacerdote porá sobre a ponta da orelha direita daquele que tem de purificar-se, e sobre o polegar da sua mão direita, e sobre o polegar do seu pé direito, em cima do sangue da oferta pela culpa; 18 o restante do azeite que está na mão do sacerdote, pô-lo-á sobre a cabeça daquele que tem de purificar-se; assim, o sacerdote fará expiação por ele perante o Senhor. 19 Então, o sacerdote fará a oferta pelo pecado e fará expiação por aquele que tem de purificar-se da sua imundícia. Depois, imolará o holocausto 20 e o oferecerá com a oferta de manjares sobre o altar; assim, o sacerdote fará expiação pelo homem, e este será limpo. 21 Se for pobre, e as suas posses não lhe permitirem trazer tanto, tomará um cordeiro para oferta pela culpa como oferta movida, para fazer expiação por ele, e a dízima de um efa de flor de farinha, amassada com azeite, para oferta de manjares, e um sextário de azeite, 22 duas rolas ou dois pombinhos, segundo as suas posses, dos quais um será para oferta pelo pecado, e o outro, para holocausto. 23 Ao oitavo dia da sua purificação, os trará ao sacerdote, à porta da tenda da congregação, perante o Senhor. 24 O sacerdote tomará o cordeiro da oferta pela culpa e o sextário de azeite e os moverá por oferta movida perante o Senhor. 25 Então, o sacerdote imolará o cordeiro da oferta pela culpa, e tomará do sangue da oferta pela culpa, e o porá sobre a ponta da orelha direita daquele que tem de purificar-se, e sobre o polegar da sua mão direita, e sobre o polegar do seu pé direito. 26 Derramará do azeite na palma da própria mão esquerda; 27 e, com o dedo direito, aspergirá do azeite que está na sua mão esquerda, sete vezes perante o Senhor; 28 porá do azeite que está na sua mão na ponta da orelha direita daquele que tem de purificar-se, e no polegar da sua mão direita, e no polegar do seu pé direito, por cima do sangue da oferta pela culpa; 29 o restante do azeite que está na mão do sacerdote porá sobre a cabeça do que tem de purificar-se, para fazer expiação por ele perante o Senhor. 30 Oferecerá uma das rolas ou um dos pombinhos, segundo as suas posses; 31 será um para oferta pelo pecado, e o outro, para holocausto, além da oferta de manjares; e, assim, o sacerdote fará expiação por aquele que tem de purificar-se perante o Senhor. 32 Esta é a lei daquele em quem está a praga da lepra, cujas posses não lhe permitem o devido para a sua purificação.

33 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés e a Arão:

34 Quando entrardes na terra de Canaã, que vos darei por possessão, e eu enviar a praga da lepra a alguma casa da terra da vossa possessão, 35 o dono da casa fará saber ao sacerdote, dizendo: Parece-me que há como que praga em minha casa. 36 O sacerdote ordenará que despejem a casa, antes que venha para examinar a praga, para que não seja contaminado tudo o que está na casa; depois, virá o sacerdote, para examinar a casa, 37 e examinará a praga. Se, nas paredes da casa, há manchas esverdinhadas ou avermelhadas e parecem mais fundas que a parede, 38 então, o sacerdote sairá da casa e a cerrará por sete dias. 39 Ao sétimo dia, voltará o sacerdote e examinará; se vir que a praga se estendeu nas paredes da casa, 40 ele ordenará que arranquem as pedras em que estiver a praga e que as lancem fora da cidade num lugar imundo; 41 e fará raspar a casa por dentro, ao redor, e o pó que houverem raspado lançarão, fora da cidade, num lugar imundo. 42 Depois, tomarão outras pedras e as porão no lugar das primeiras; tomar-se-á outra argamassa e se rebocará a casa.

43 Se a praga tornar a brotar na casa, depois de arrancadas as pedras, raspada a casa e de novo rebocada, 44 então, o sacerdote entrará e examinará. Se a praga se tiver estendido na casa, há nela lepra maligna; está imunda. 45 Derribar-se-á, portanto, a casa, as pedras e a sua madeira, como também todo o reboco da casa; e se levará tudo para fora da cidade, a um lugar imundo. 46 Aquele que entrar na casa, enquanto está fechada, será imundo até à tarde. 47 Também o que se deitar na casa lavará as suas vestes; e quem nela comer lavará as suas vestes.

48 Porém, tornando o sacerdote a entrar, e, examinando, se a praga na casa não se tiver estendido depois que a casa foi rebocada, o sacerdote a declarará limpa, porque a praga está curada. 49 Para purificar a casa, tomará duas aves, e pau de cedro, e estofo carmesim, e hissopo, 50 imolará uma ave num vaso de barro sobre águas correntes, 51 tomará o pau de cedro, e o hissopo, e o estofo carmesim, e a ave viva, e os molhará no sangue da ave imolada e nas águas correntes, e aspergirá a casa sete vezes. 52 Assim, purificará aquela casa com o sangue da ave, e com as águas correntes, e com a ave viva, e com o pau de cedro, e com o hissopo, e com o estofo carmesim. 53 Então, soltará a ave viva para fora da cidade, para o campo aberto; assim, fará expiação pela casa, e será limpa.

54 Esta é a lei de toda sorte de praga de lepra, e de tinha, 55 e da lepra das vestes, e das casas, 56 e da inchação, e da pústula, e das manchas lustrosas, 57 para ensinar quando qualquer coisa é limpa ou imunda. Esta é a lei da lepra.

1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest: 3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, 4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 5 and the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field. 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. 9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 11 And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed, and those things, before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah: 13 and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary: for as the sin-offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass-offering: it is most holy. 14 And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 15 And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand; 16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah. 17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering: 18 and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah. 19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering; 20 and the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the meal-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much, then he shall take one he-lamb for a trespass-offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil; 22 and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering. 23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah: 24 and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah. 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah: 28 and the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering: 29 and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah. 30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to get, 31 even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah. 32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

33 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 34 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house. 36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goeth in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: 37 and he shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall; 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city: 41 and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off, without the city into an unclean place: 42 and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken out the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered; 44 then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. 46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. 47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.

48 And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 50 and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 51 and he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: 52 and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: 53 but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.

54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall, 55 and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house, 56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

1 The LORD said to Moses,

2 "These are the regulations for any diseased person at the time of their ceremonial cleansing, when they are brought to the priest:

3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease, [^1]

4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the person to be cleansed.

5 Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot.

6 He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.

7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease, and then pronounce them clean. After that, he is to release the live bird in the open fields.

8 "The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair and bathe with water; then they will be ceremonially clean. After this they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.

9 On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair; they must shave their head, their beard, their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe themselves with water, and they will be clean.

10 "On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah "of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, and one log "of oil.

11 The priest who pronounces them clean shall present both the one to be cleansed and their offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

12 "Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

13 He is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering "and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

14 The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.

15 The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,

16 dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the LORD seven times.

17 The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

18 The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for them before the LORD.

19 "Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from their uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering

20 and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for them, and they will be clean.

21 "If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah "of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,

22 and two doves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

23 "On the eighth day they must bring them for their cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the LORD.

24 The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering, together with the log of oil, and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

25 He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.

26 The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,

27 and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the LORD.

28 Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering —on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.

29 The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for them before the LORD.

30 Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, such as the person can afford,

31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed."

32 These are the regulations for anyone who has a defiling skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for their cleansing.

33 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

34 "When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,

35 the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, 'I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.'

36 The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.

37 He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

38 the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.

39 On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,

40 he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.

41 He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.

42 Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.

43 "If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,

44 the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.

45 It must be torn down —its stones, timbers and all the plaster —and taken out of the town to an unclean place.

46 "Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening.

47 Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.

48 "But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.

49 To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.

50 He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

51 Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

52 He shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

53 Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean."

54 These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease, for a sore,

55 for defiling molds in fabric or in a house,

56 and for a swelling, a rash or a shiny spot,

57 to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.